Visit Okies for Monarchs’ website for a list of nurseries and seed houses that are still open for business. This way, you can do your part to keep the COVID-19 pandemic from becoming yet another factor in pollinator declines.

“After much information gathering and deliberation among our staff at the Center for Engagement and Community Development, we have decided to cancel the face-to-face National Rural Grocery Summit slated for June 8-9, 2020 in Manhattan, Kansas. We are sad to make this decision as we were looking forward to seeing so many of our friends, owners, and partners and hearing about new and cutting-edge ideas regarding rural grocery operations and access to healthy foods.

We are exploring a number of online engagement opportunities to continue to provide important and relevant information for rural grocers and for all those working to improve access to healthy foods. Please stay tuned.”

The Seventh National Rural Grocery Summit will bring together store owners, citizen leaders, food suppliers, academic researchers, healthy food access stakeholders, policy makers, and funders to talk with one another about how best to sustain this critical small business and improve rural access to healthy foods.

For more information or to register, visit the conference website, or contact the conference registration office by email or phone (1-800-432-8222).

Join this webinar to talk with one of the CFAP National Program Specialists to discuss what specialty crop producers should know to sign up for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP), which ends August 28, 2020.

Also, learn more about the Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) process: how to submit additional commodities for consideration to USDA before the June 22, 2020 request for information deadline.